Chance Stevens joined Oklahoma Christian’s baseball staff in June 2012 as the Eagles’ pitching coach.
After his first season at OC, two of his pitchers, Cale Coshow and Chris Burgess, were selected in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, the first time in school history that two Eagles were drafted during the same year. In 2014, another OC pitcher, Dillon Endecott, earned NCAA Division II All-America honors, and in 2017, OC hurler Dalton Rentz was named as Oklahoma's NCAA Division II pitcher of the year by OklahomaSports.net.
OC made three straight trips to the National Christian College Athletic Association World Series after Stevens arrived, winning the NCCAA Central Region title each year and reaching the semifinals in 2015. In 2016, the Eagles advanced to the Heartland Conference tournament's championship round in their first season of NCAA Division II postseason eligibility.
The 35-year-old Stevens, who’s from Fort Worth, Texas, arrived at OC after spending three seasons on the staff at Oklahoma Wesleyan after finishing his playing career at the school in Bartlesville.
In 2012, Stevens’ first season as a full-time pitching coach, OWU went 42-25 and was the runner-up in the NCCAA World Series. Three of Stevens’ pitchers received All-Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference honors and they combined to throw two no-hitters.
In 2011, OWU won the NCCAA title with a 39-28 record.
Stevens also worked as a coach with an American Legion team in Bartlesville.
He played one season at North Central Texas College before transferring to OWU. In three seasons at OWU (2007-2009), he posted a 16-18 career pitching record with a 5.01 ERA and 184 strikeouts in 210 innings pitched. He was a first-team All-MCAC pick in 2007 and made the All-NCCAA Central Region first-team list during all three of his seasons at OWU. He also recorded the first no-hitter in OWU history.
